The Power of Possibility

The Columbia mba program

Columbia Business School creates leaders who are well positioned to excel in the rapidly changing business world. Columbias MBA Program leads the charge in this new era of business education, starting with our natural advantages: cutting-edge faculty research and a focus on experiential learning, a powerful alumni network, and our location in the city of New York. Columbia Business School is not simply located in New York. The School is fully immersed here. With its longstanding tradition of excellence and Manhattan address, the Columbia MBA Program draws the most influential and innovative business leaders and thinkers to campusto address, teach, and mentor students. The curriculum embraces Columbias intellectual capital and location, forging a vital link between rigorous academic theory and real-world practice. The MBA Program inspires and fosters entrepreneurial thinking, which prepares graduates to lead effectively, capture opportunity, and respond dynamically to changes in business. Embracing the power of possibility, Columbia graduates dont just join the workforcethey influence it, shape it, and change it for the better.

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Again and again, our graduates tell me that Columbia Business School changed for that their lives. The School prepared them

5, 10, 20 years after they graduated: knew how to grab it.

glenn hubbard Dean, Columbia Business School Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics

moment, whether it was

when the big opportunity came, they

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An Ideal Location, Physically and Intellectually

This morning I sat in a room with leaders representing over $100 billion in capital as part of the Real Estate Forum put together by the Milstein Center for Real Estate. This
lars unhjem 08 Co-president of the student-run Real Estate Association

kind of access is characteristic of Columbia.

New York City as classroom

Columbias academic excellence combined with access to all that New York has to offer means incomparable opportunities for our students: hands-on learning, mentoring, and career networking. The worlds top business leaders, from virtually every industry, are frequent visitors to campus, teaching, speaking, advising, recruiting, and helping shape the student experience. Clubs and internships offer students extensive opportunities to practice what they learn.

Cases Come To life

Students in Columbias MBA Program have a distinct advantage in studying business. Columbias professors are leading experts in their fields with significant global experience, and many of them choose to live in New York because the city offers one of the worlds top laboratories for business study and practice. Their knowledge and connections and the Schools location mean that faculty members are able to invite people who have played key roles in the cases being studied to take part in real-time class discussions. In Media Mergers and Acquisitions, for example, Viacoms general counsel and the treasurer and senior vice president of finance at the CBS television network talk to students about Viacoms acquisition of CBS, while a Morgan Stanley managing director offers industry analysis of the complexities of the merger between AOL and Time Warner. These firsthand insights and behind-the-scenes perspectives add a real-world dimension throughout the curriculum.

unparalleled aCCess To business leaders

The Columbia Business School environment is a microcosm of the world of business. Monday mornings class in retailing leadership might feature the CEO of Calvin Klein, while on Tuesday, the president of a new start-up strategizes with the members of a Master Class on entrepreneurship. On Wednesday, the Healthcare Dealmakers panel brings experts in global healthcare to campus. Columbia Women in Business holds a Thursday forum on developing negotiation skills, while Friday might include a trip downtown to meet with a Columbia graduate and ask questions about his or her industry. Columbia Business School hosts some 500 speakers each year. Leaders in global business, pioneering innovators, and heads of state all contribute to the daily exchange of high-level ideas. Through the Executives in Residence Program, senior business leaders work closely with students and develop

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longstanding relationships with the School. Students often establish and maintain connections with visiting business leaders, which can translate into professional opportunities, including summer internships.

taught or studied at Columbia, including University Professor Joseph Stiglitz, who often teaches at the Business School. The Business Schools affiliation with the University fosters learning across disciplines, stimulating teaching excellence in finance, consumer behavior, business decision making, and negotiations and strategy.

real Talk, real experienCe

The more than 90 student-run clubs and organizations make an important contribution to life at the School. Like the MBA curriculum, club activities challenge students to learn by doing. Through the Small Business Consulting Program, for example, Columbia students helped a New York theater company hit its highest ticket-sales mark ever. Another group of students with backgrounds in real estate, technology,

reCenT speakers
Warren Buffett MS 51 Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. Jamie Dimon Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase Lew Frankfort 69 Chairman and CEO, Coach, Inc. Shantayanan Devarajan Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Bill Gates Founder and Chairman, Microsoft Andrea Jung Chairman and CEO, Avon Products, Inc. Shelly Lazarus 70 Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Henry Paulson Former Treasury Secretary, United States Former Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs Vivian Schiller President and CEO, NPR

Thirteen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics have taught or studied at Columbia.
marketing, and strategy consulting helped a local clothing designer decide whether to open a brick-andmortar store or aggressively pursue online sales.

ivy league edge

As one of the worlds top research universities, Columbia has a long history of attracting great thinkers and producing groundbreaking research. Thirteen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics have

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One of the great things about being here is the number of business leaders and academic stars who come through every week. Theres an embarrassment of riches.
mark broadie Carson Family Professor of Business, Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

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Cutting-Edge Research Meets Real-World Business

Students

go to retail environments, go into companies, and look at all the different aspects that make up a brand. I use multiple formats in, and outside, the classroom to help students experience and understand ideas.
bernd sChmiTT Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business, Marketing Division

are always exposed to real environments. In my classes, we

Teach, learn, and create

New Yorks business energy and resources fuel experiential learning, one of the foundations of education at Columbia Business School. Our faculty members produce some of the most relevant and groundbreaking research in business, and their ideas make an impact on business practice around the world. Columbias classrooms are for creating and doing, as well as for instruction. Active, project-based learning prepares students to think strategically and to identify and capture opportunity.

The faCulTy
Teachers, Innovators, Thought Leaders Members of the Columbia Business School faculty are renowned worldwide for creating knowledge in their fields while also having a direct impact on the practice of business. Columbia students are often the first to learn cutting-edge ideas developed by our faculty membersideas that others will later adopt, teach, and apply. In the classroom, lectures and case studies come alive thanks to faculty members extensive experiences in the business world. Academic journals and media outlets seek out Columbia Business School professors perspectives on current issues. Chris Mayer, the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, is a prime example. As the national housing market grows ever more complex, Professor Mayer has been highly sought-after for his expertise and is a frequent commentator in the national media.

Ray Fisman, the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise, is a rising star in the area of economic development. A panelist at the World Economic Forums meeting in Davos, Professor Fisman is also an active researcher in the emerging field of behavioral economics. Bernd Schmitt, the Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business and faculty director of the Center on Global Brand Leadership, is an internationally renowned branding expert whose research and consulting have helped businesses worldwide gain competitive advantage through delivering a great customer experience. He has appeared not only on the BBC, CNN, and CNBC, but also on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Columbia Business School students thrive on their access to faculty members. It is not unusual for these productive relationships to be maintained long after graduation.
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CurriCulum
Columbias MBA Program prepares students to lead, build, and manage successful enterprises in a rapidly changing, global economy. This begins with a flexible, dynamic curriculum that

curricular innovation and commitment to providing the best-in-class management education for the next generation of business leaders. Electives Beginning in the second term, students select from one of the largest and most innovative slates of electives at any business school. The more than 200 offerings include New Challenges in Healthcare Management; Business Strategy for Emerging Markets; Information Technology and Operations Strategy; and Marketing Art, Culture, and Education. The School also encourages students to take

prepare graduates for a lifetime of change, in business and in their own careers

emphasizes big-picture business skills that

builds awareness of ethical issues and the

societal effects of business decisions

fosters an entrepreneurial mindset that allows graduates to capture opportunity whenever it appears
Flexible Core The core curriculum, a series of focused, rigorous, and relevant courses taken largely in the first two terms, has recently been revised to allow students greater flexibility in choosing core classes that best enhance their skills and experience while ensuring they get a solid foundation that can be applied to any industry over the course of a business career. A feature of the new curriculum, the flexible core allows students to select one course from each of three general areas organizations, performance, and marketsgaining a deeper foundational understanding of the workplace and the marketplace while homing in on the specific curricular areas they deem most valuable. The flexible core reflects Columbia Business Schools ongoing

The flexible core reflects Columbia Business Schools ongoing curricular innovation.
advantage of the more than 4,000 graduate-level courses available across the University, as well as the Schools ten dual-degree partnerships. Students may define their own focus or select from such established areas as accounting, decision and risk analysis, entrepreneurship, healthcare and pharmaceutical management, marketing, media, operations management, real estate, and social enterprise.
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I really valued the emphasis on teamwork at Columbia. You cant lead a company without working together.
jessiCa feinsTein 07 Associate Brand Manager, Unilever, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

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versaTive programs
Success in business goes well beyond mastering functional competencies. Leadership ability is among the most important skills required for achievement at the highest levels. An entrepreneurial mindset, coupled with the ability to seize opportunity, is crucial. Increasingly, people in business are defining success to include both doing well and doing good. Through a holistic curriculum that features a number of innovative programs, Columbia Business School helps students develop the skills, perspective, and insight they need to lead, create, and succeed. Program on Social Intelligence (PSI) Columbia Business School is at the vanguard of a new movement in business education that recognizes the importance of social acuitythe ability to lead, read people, manage individuals and teams and negotiate with advocates and adversariesand creates a framework that cultivates these skills. The Program on Social Intelligence is integrated throughout the entire student experience, from orientation to reunions, in core and elective classes, career-management programs, and extracurricular activities. Students are introduced to PSI through three methods: individualized assessment, in which they receive feedback on such characteristics as their team habits, career values, and cultural styles; experiential learning, which involves practicing social skills as part of learning teams and other group activities; and executive coaching, in which professional coaches

help students examine their strengths and identify areas for improvement. The program aims to help students draw out the talents, energy, and best efforts of all the people with whom they interact. This recognition of and curricular response to this business movement, as well as Columbias New York location, enable the MBA Program to capitalize on the complementary expertise of major players who are leading the thinking about social intelligence. Among them are Daniel Goleman, whose books have popularized the concepts of emotional and social intelligence, and New Yorker writer and The Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell.
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Master Classes Master Classes are project-based courses that challenge students to integrate concepts learned in the classroom with immediate business problems and to make managerial decisions that have real-world impact. Each Master Class offers students hands-on exposure to the day-to-day challenges of the business world; students might consult with a chain store looking to expand into a new region, a company in turnaround or an organization planning to refocus an existing product into a new demographic target market. In Macro Investing, for example, students are introduced to macroeconomics-based trading strategies, the development of new financial securities and products, and a variety of public-policy issues. In teams of six, students work closely with external fund

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managers to build a macro investment strategy or develop a new financial product or market related to the topics covered in the course. The teaching team, led by Stephen Zeldes, the Benjamin Rosen Professor of Finance and Economics, and Charles Himmelberg, adjunct associate professor of finance and economics and US credit strategist for Goldman Sachs, exemplifies the bridge between theory and practice and capitalizes on the faculty members academic expertise and extensive practical experience.
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The Entrepreneurship Program Through a wide range of initiatives, the Entrepreneurship Program brings together people, ideas, and resources in ways that transform emerging business ideas into viable strategies and, ultimately, thriving organizations. As aspiring entrepreneurs connect with mentors, investors, and other budding entrepreneurs, opportunities take shape and companies and leaders are born. The Entrepreneurial Greenhouse Program helps students prepare their business plans for investment by providing funding for prelaunch expenses, access to experts in key fields and opportunities to present business concepts to professional investors. On average, more than half of the businesses nurtured by the Entrepreneurial Greenhouse Program are launched immediately after their founders graduate. With support from the program and seed capital from the Lang Fund, Dawn Sanders 05 was able to launch Eyespa, the first day spa in East Harlem, and break

As aspiring entrepreneurs connect with mentors, investors, and other budding entrepreneurs, opportunities take shape and companies and leaders are born.
even after just three months. The Lang Fund process forces you to be serious about what you want to do, says Sanders. The Entrepreneurship Programs annual A. Lorne Weil Outrageous Business Plan Competition offers Columbia students a venue for entrepreneurial ideas that are so ambitious in scope and scale that they would likely be dismissed in more traditional outlets. Another initiative, the Entrepreneurial Sounding Board, provides opportunities for MBA students to meet individually with faculty members and practitioners affiliated with the Entrepreneurship Program to discuss entrepreneurial ideas and potential business opportunities. These 30-minute sessions provide students with a platform to receive preliminary feedback, next-step action items and, in many cases, links to additional support from appropriate mentors.
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Social Enterprise Program Whether heading to the public or private sectoror some combination over a lifetimeColumbia MBAs gain the tools to make a difference in the world. That happens in part through the Social Enterprise Program, which integrates electives, internships, and research projects for students who seek a career in a nonprofit organization or in government, have an interest in volunteering or serving on a nonprofit board, or want to learn more about social innovation in business. This extraordinarily successful program

Columbia MBAs gain the tools to make a difference in the world.

brings together a far-ranging network of students, faculty members, and business leaders who generate social benefit through business practices. Electives in this highly popular program include Globalization and Markets: Reforming the International Economic Architecture; Strategic Philanthropy; Corporate Governance; and Business in Society: Doing Well by Doing Good? The program allows students to gain direct experience while connecting with local communities and Columbia Business School alumni. For Sachin Kadakia 07, participation in the Nonprofit Board Leadership

Program translated into an opportunity to serve on the junior board of the Central Park Conservancy. Through the CORPS Fellowship Program, which subsidizes summer internships in the nonprofit and public sectors, Columbia students have helped New York neighborhoods battle childhood asthma, Manhattan businesses rebuild after 9/11, and women in need gain access to microfinance loans. Research symposiums bring together practitioners, scholars, and policymakers to discuss subjects ranging from state-of-the-art practices in microfinance to socially responsible investing. After graduation, the Columbia Business School Loan Assistance Program helps alleviate the financial burden associated with repaying education loans for MBAs who take management and leadership positions in the public and nonprofit sectors.
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oTher CurriCular programs inClude

Real Estate Program
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Media Program
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Program for Financial Studies

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Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program

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Private Equity Program

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The Power of Global Reach

Columbia: Connected to the World

Columbia is located in the most international city in the world, and the student body reflects that. Even when I was here more than 30 years ago, one-third of the students were from other countries.

This business school is the perfect fit for the global world we are living in today.
paolo sCaroni 73 CEO, Eni S.p.A., Rome

Instant recognition anywhere in the world

Columbia Business School offers an education that is truly global. The curriculum is infused with an international perspective, while special projects send students to Asia, Africa, and South America, among other locations, to apply what they have learned to business challenges abroad. Alumni from around the world return to campus as speakers to enlighten, inform, and provide opportunity. This global reach ensures that the value of a Columbia MBA is instantly recognized anywhere in the world.

a faCulTy wiTh a global perspeCTive

The Schools leadership in global business education is driven by the strength, reputation, and experience of our 149 full-time faculty members. More than half have lived or worked abroad, one-quarter spend several weeks teaching or working overseas in any given year and many consult regularly for global businesses. Their research often touches on issues of international concern. Amar Bhid, the Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business in the Management Division and a specialist in entrepreneurship, for instance, recently wrote about the implications

of outsourcing to India for both the US and the Indian economies, upending assumptions about each and delineating needed reforms. And on the 60th anniversary of George C. Marshalls proposal of the European Recovery Program, Dean Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan, associate professor of management, wrote a Financial Times op-ed piece proposing a similar business-sector support project for Africa.

diverse CiTy, diverse Campus

Columbias students are drawn to New York from more than 65 countries, with more than one-third of the students holding citizenship from countries other than the United States. Peer-to-peer learning is integral to the Columbia MBA experience, and the diversity of backgrounds, ideas, and interests of the students is an essential part of the Schools vitality. The global network of friends, colleagues, and mentors that students build through their Columbia experience is invaluable.

Columbia students come to New York from more than 65 countries.

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global presenCe
The umbrella for international opportunity at the School, the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business uses research, teaching, and travel to enable students to translate entrepreneurial skills into any culture. The Chazen Institute funds cross-disciplinary and cross-school research, oversees international exchange programs, sponsors conferences on timely global issues, hosts an international career management services conference, and publishes the journal Chazen Global Insights.
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Chazen inTernaTional sTudy Tours

Designed to enhance the classroom curriculum, International Study Tours offer students and their faculty adviser an intense, firsthand experience of the business culture of their chosen country or region. During the 7- to 10-day trips, students meet with leading executives and government officials while visiting businesses, factories, and cultural sites. Organized by individual students or clubs, study tours give students an opportunity to explore different business environments and to lay the groundwork for future international internships and jobs.

from new york To The world

Personal experience is an invaluable part of learning about another culture and the nuances of international business. Columbia Business School study tours and exchange programs take place in almost every part of the world. Through Chazen International Study Tours, students have explored business practices and

reCenT sTudy Tour desTinaTions

Australia Bulgaria and Romania China Dubai and Doha Italy Japan Latin America Russia South Korea

More than half of Columbias faculty members have lived or worked abroad.
innovation firsthand in more than 25 countries. Each term, students study at 1 of 26 top business schools worldwide through the Chazen MBA Exchange Program. Exchange programs also extend to faculty research.
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industry-focused
Berlin and London (Real Estate) Brazil (Renewable Energy) Hong Kong and Shanghai (Real Estate) India (Social Enterprise) Mexico (Real Estate) Paris and Brussels (Corporate Social Responsibility) Rwanda (Social Enterprise) So Paulo and Buenos Aires (Real Estate)

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Selling Cooking Gas in Cameroon Working with EMP Africa has been an invaluable experience for all of us. Over spring break we traveled to Cameroon to interview distributors, retailers, customers, and other industry stakeholders in four different cities, as well as company management, and discovered that in many ways our project was a classic marketing problem: our client clearly has a superior product but does not know how to market it.
gbolade arinoso 08, alonzo doriTy 07, brad fusCo 07, jusTin mandel 08, mark pedersen 07, and jindriCh ziTek 08 The team of students from Columbia Business Schools International Development Club, reporting on their Social Enterprise Program experience in Cameroon

The Power of Community

Campus Life within the City

Columbia

is a utopian environment in the middle of New York with incredibly smart,

important. We recently had our class

successful people and an unbelievable sense

of community. Our cluster was especially reunion, and people flew in from all over the world.
elise dowell 02 Communications Director, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

Community fueled by team building

A beautiful academic setting with nearby parks, bookstores, and coffee shops, Columbias Morningside Campus offers a collegiate atmosphere in the heart of one of the worlds most exciting cities. Students are members of a collaborative community at Columbia Business School that is fueled and supported by a curricular emphasis on team building and project-based learning, as well as hundreds of academic and social events.

CollaboraTe for a CompeTiTive edge

For Columbia MBA students, community building begins right at the start of the program. During the first year, clusters of 65 to 70 students take all core curriculum courses together. As diverse as the class itself, clusters create a strong sense of community and

a sTudenT-foCused Campus
The Columbia campus is bustling, with more than 100 events offered in a typical week. Conferences many designed and organized by students feature business and government leaders for panels, workshops, networking, and socializing. Clubs bring students together in many ways, including by career and professional interest, cultural or geographic affiliation, and social interest. There are also clubs devoted to athletics and other leisure activities, from rugby to wine tasting to salsa dancing.

The Columbia campus is bustling; more than 100 events are offered in a typical week.
foster lasting professional and personal relationships. Starting with orientation, learning teams of five to six students promote cooperation and collaboration, a hallmark of the Columbia experience.

giving baCk To The CommuniTy

Each year, students volunteer countless hours to such activities as coaching welfare-to-work recipients on interviewing skills and assisting in refurbishment projects at schools and parks. The School is also home to nearly a dozen of its own service activities. For example, each winter, students, faculty members, and staff host the Holiday Party for Kids, an evening of games, food, music, and arts and crafts for children from local shelters and after-school programs.
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A Day in the Life of a Columbia Business School Student

alison lindland 08

On a dynamic campus in the heart of New York, the only thing typical about any given day at Columbia Business School is the countless options. One student gamely tried to capture her activities on a single autumn day.

8:45 a.m. Get to Uris Deli in time to grab

coffee with friends before class.

910:30 a.m. Accounting with Vice Dean

Amir Ziv. Im fortunate to be in his class; hes won teaching awards almost every year since 2000.

10:45 a.m.12:15 p.m. Corporate Finance with Professor

Daniel Paravisini.

12:302 p.m. Working lunch with my learning team in the caf in the
architecture school (just next to Uris Hall and the best food on campus). Were working on a valuation for Corporate Finance.

22:30 p.m. Answer some e-mails about scheduling informational interviews with alumni downtown. E-mail tutors to set up a time to work on accounting over the weekend.

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2:303:30 p.m. Swing by the Career Management Center to set up a session for the mock interview workshop. Work on rsums and cover letters with a Career Management Center adviser.

3:304:30 p.m. Rehearsal for Cluster Cup event. As social rep for Cluster H, I am directing a sketch for the upcoming Halloween show. Were making a Broadway musical-style skit out of a finance case about a distressed lumber company. Trust me, its really funny.

8:00 p.m. Listen to Steve Michaelson, CMO of Supervalu and former president
of Fresh Direct, discuss how he used his retail, merchandising, and marketing experience to build one of the nations leading online food-delivery services.

910:30 p.m. Conference call for the MBA Media Management Conference;
as an AVP for the Media Management Association, Im working on the conference in February.

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Join an Influential Global Community

Our

alumni group meets regularly, and Im able to broaden my network both inside and outside my industry. Although I only graduated
a few years ago, Ive already tapped into the Columbia network several times for mentorship and industry contacts.
kellie jenks 04 Investment Manager, The Lionstone Group, Houston

Building and developing relationships with leaders

Just as students learn skills that will last a lifetime, they also develop relationships and build networks for a lifetime. From the moment a student enters Columbia Business School, he or she joins an extended family of professionals39,000 alumni from 111 countriesencompassing both those who are leaders in their fields and those who promise to be.

ConneCTing in new york . . .

Thousands of Columbia alumni live and work in New York, facilitating personal connections in their offices or on campus. Alumni often return to campus to share their knowledge, whether in classes, through club events or as recruiters, mentors, and speakers. When the Schools Media Program holds its annual Career Night, for example, more than 800 students and alumni gather for an evening of networking. Past attendees have included alumni executives representing the New York Times Company, BET, the Sundance Channel, Reuters Consumer Media, and Bank of America Media and Entertainment Group, to name just a few. Because they know the value of a Columbia Business School education, alumni are often eager to reach out to students at the School. Dave Nadeau 02 initiated a program in which students join him on the trading floor, gaining both hands-on experience and credit as part of a field study. This is 100 percent practical knowledge, he says, adding that he wanted to help

students get the same early exposure to trading that launched his career in commodities. Its easy to read about how things trade and how the market changes dynamically over time, but to experience it live is very different.

. . . and around The world

Columbia Business Schools network extends well beyond New York. There are 21 alumni clubs throughout the United States and more than 30 international clubs around the world, from Argentina to Australia, India to Israel, Shanghai to Switzerland.
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an aCTive board of overseers

The members of the Schools Board of Overseers are remarkably involved, powerful resources. They speak at student events, attend alumni events, are active in curricular and extracurricular programming, and make themselves available for advice and mentoring.
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Admissions
Making the Right Connection

Columbia Business School represents a significant investment in ones future, a commitment that will pay dividends not just in the first job after graduation but throughout a career. Columbia looks for students who come from a broad range of educational, professional, economic, social, cultural, and geographic backgrounds and who also have a few key elements in common: intellectual ability, a record of achievement, demonstrated leadership, and the ability to work as part of a team.

requiremenTs
To apply for and attend the program, you must have: Completed application including two letters of recommendation and essays Bachelors degree (or equivalent) GMAT or GRE score Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), if appropriate

Take The nexT sTep

The School invites prospective applicants to experience the Columbia MBA environment for themselves. Information sessions are the best way to learn more about Columbia Business Schools competitive strengths and the application process, as well as to ask questions of admissions officers, alumni, and students. Sessions are held both on campus and around the world. Applicants may also want to speak one-on-one with a student and visit a class. Please visit the Schools website for more information about how to make these connections.
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opTions
Columbia Business School provides students with the option of enrolling in either August or January. Students who begin in August have the opportunity to work a summer internship between their second and third terms. Students who do not want or need an internship may consider beginning their MBA studies in January and taking their second term during the summer. A January start may be ideal for students who wish to remain in the same industry after graduation or pursue entrepreneurial interests.

Available online: Application for admission Application deadlines and requirements Details on campus visits Financial aid information Entering class profile

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The excitement and energy of this campus is just amazing. Our students, professors, and practitioners all bring fresh ideas and rich experiences that create a dynamic environment.
mary miller Assistant Dean of Admissions

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admissions offiCe
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eduCaTional opTions for a lifeTime

Columbia Business School offers other top-ranked educational programs. Executive MBA Programs (EMBA) Alternate options allow professionals to remain at their jobs while earning an MBA degree.
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[email protected] Tel.: 212-854-1961 Fax: 212-662-6754

offiCe of sTudenT affairs

Academics and Student Life
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[email protected] Tel.: 212-854-4191 Fax: 212-678-0171 Financial Aid

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[email protected] Tel.: 212-854-4057 Fax: 212-854-1809

Columbia Business School Executive Education Select from nondegree open enrollment programs in leadership, strategy, finance, and marketing, and nonprofit management, as well as custom offerings.
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Doctoral Program Offered by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and administered by the Business School, the PhD Program produces some of the worlds most soughtafter researchers and scholars.
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CONCEPT/DEsigN: suka DEsigN, NY/sukaDEsigN.COm

emba-new york The New Yorkbased Executive MBA program is identical in curriculum toand is taught by the same faculty asthe full-time MBA Program. emba-global Columbias joint EMBA programs with London Business School and HKU Business School offer classes in the three financial capitals driving global business. berkeley-Columbia executive mba The Berkeley-Columbia EMBA program divides instruction equally between the faculties at Columbia Business School and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Our location, physically and intellectually, draws star power from the business community to campus.
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